How is shitting on a genocidal autocratic apartheid regime "virtue signalling"?
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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It's "virtue signalling" if you are a white supremacist that can't stand people learning the truth about the west's favorite little genocidal kapo state... they know how that eventually worked out for their previous favorite, Apartheid-South Africa.
As far as I remember, there were people virtue-signaling this kind of conflict, even before the internet was a thing.
Virtue signaling and outrage are the only things that are real, and whomever has the most "wins".
Picking reasons to create division is fun, fuck fundamentalism and governments - no innocent should die.
After much reflection, my response to both sides is a weary "What did you expect would happen?"
And both sides hate nothing more than the overwhelming apathy I have towards two sides who are objectively terrible kicking piss out of each other yet again.
Ok but like a whole lot of people have died in a short period of time there. Maybe we can worry about what people on Twatter have to say later?
Nothing is new about this. I remember when I was a kid seeing all these bored middle aged people lining up for Black Friday shopping just to feel literally anything.
Fact based and rational media? Wikipedia is probably your closest bet.
You can't see truth, only triangulate it.
I'm not sure what the editorial author wants everyone to do.
Be critical thinkers, try to be effective, but when people demonstrate incomplete logic, engaging with them is a useful exercise. Either your logic is wrong, or their logic is wrong, and a healthy mature discourse will help you both develop better positions
I was talking with someone on here yesterday who provided a balanced arguement (that disagreed with mine) and provided a number of sources.
I was gutted their comment was deleted so I couldn't reply.
Go to your Lemmy messages, all messages, copy and paste their deleted message, so you can still manually reply to it. It doesn't have to be lost forever
The people who support Hamas are brainlets, but the people who support Israel are extremely misguided at best